Adelaide’s Eddie Betts loves spreading the goals as much as kicking them himself.Source: Getty Images

FORGIVE Eddie Betts if he takes a shot at goal tonight against Richmond that he would usually hand off to a teammate.

The dynamic small forward was hauled before Crows coach Brenton Sanderson this week and told to be more selfish.

The Adelaide coaching staff say Betts — one of the scoring assist kings of the AFL — has cost his team goals by dishing out too many handballs and short passes when he should have kicked for goal himself.

“Eddie, for example, on the weekend (against Brisbane) kicked 3.1 and had six scoring assists — and four of those were goal assists,’’ Sanderson said.

“So at times I would rather Eddie just go back and have a shot for goal himself. Just kick the goal, Eddie, kick the goal.

“He is so unselfish with the way he brings his teammates into the game but at times he can overdo it.

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